Editing Edith Wharton (section)

===1880s–1900s===
[[File:The Mount from the Flower Garden by David Dashiell.jpg|thumb|left|[[The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)|The Mount]], 2006]]

On April 29, 1885,<ref>New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866–1937</ref> at the age of 23, Wharton married Edward Robbins (Teddy) Wharton, who was 12 years her senior, at the [[Trinity Chapel Complex]] in Manhattan.{{sfn|Lee|2008|pp=74–75}}<ref>U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704–1930</ref> From a well-established Boston family, he was a sportsman and a gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. The Whartons set up house at Pencraig Cottage in Newport.{{sfn|Lee|2008|p=81}} In 1893, they bought a house named Land's End, on the other side of Newport, for $80,000, and moved into it.{{sfn|Lee|2008|p=81}} Wharton decorated Land's End, with the help of designer [[Ogden Codman]]. In 1897, the Whartons purchased their New York home, 884 [[Park Avenue]].{{sfn|Lee|2008|p=82}} Between 1886 and 1897, they traveled overseas, in the period from February to June, mostly visiting Italy but also Paris and England.{{sfn|Lee|2008|p=82}} From her marriage onwards, three interests came to dominate Wharton's life: American houses, writing, and Italy.{{sfn|Lee|2008|p=81}}

From the late 1880s until 1902, Teddy Wharton suffered from chronic depression. The couple, then, ceased their extensive travel.<ref name="Davis">{{Harvnb|Davis|2007}}</ref> At that time, his depression became more debilitating, after which they lived almost exclusively at their estate, [[The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)|The Mount]], in Lenox, Massachusetts. During those same years, Wharton, herself, was said to suffer from asthma and periods of depression.{{sfn|Lee|2008|pp=78–81}}

In 1908, Teddy Wharton's mental condition was determined to be incurable. In that year, Wharton began an affair with [[William Morton Fullerton|Morton Fullerton]], an author, and foreign correspondent for ''[[The Times]]'' of London, in whom she found an intellectual partner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm |title= Edith Wharton's World, Portrait of People and Places| publisher = National Portrait Gallery |access-date= December 23, 2009 | location = [[United States|US]]}}</ref> She divorced Edward Wharton, in 1913, after 28 years of marriage.<ref name="Davis"/> Around the same time, she was beset with harsh literary criticism from the [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalist]] school of writers.

[[File:Edith Wharton as a young woman, ca. 1889 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Edith Wharton {{Circa|1889}}]]

In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories.<ref name="W. W. Norton & Company, Inc"/> She was also a [[garden designer]], an [[interior design]]er, and a taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first major published work, ''[[The Decoration of Houses]]'' (1897), co-authored by [[Ogden Codman]]. Another of her "home and garden" books is the generously illustrated ''Italian Villas and Their Gardens'' of 1904, illustrated by [[Maxfield Parrish]].